Last night's eleven o'clock (UK time) Cariae "Storm the Castle" event was a bit different from the earlier one. Cmom2 and I were both there waiting at the start - but so were plenty of other people, and when the event began, the monsters got a thorough, sound and swift thrashing, with the whole place cleared out within six minutes, never mind twenty. [GM]Stratos was in charge, and didn't really add any frills or thrills - I can't say that the loot seemed all that generous, I mainly managed to grab two of each item (and an extra couple of large attack potions), but that was mainly because of the number of people there. At least one level 130 type was grumbling that he hadn't had anything worth fighting at all, which shows how hard it is to balance these things. [GM]Stratos was also running the Katar StC at the same time, perhaps if he'd been able to give us his full attention he would at least have added a fluton or two in the throne room to make the high-level types feel wanted.
Saturday is a quieter day, with mainly the "Turbo" event, scheduled for six to ten in the evening. As usual the web description said "Today's event is called turbo because it's a combination of either 150% XP, SP and/or Pet XP. The day before the event, we will update this page with what may be coming your way!
" - and as usual the page hadn't been updated, so that the bonus remained a mystery until the last moment. We also have the introduction of the new Jaguar pets, with a raffle, and today this raffle doesn't require people to actually part with cash - each hour, up to five, that they are online in Last Chaos is a raffle entry, which is a nice touch. Tomorrow the raffle gets a bit more commercial, with the purchase of "special offer" item mall packages required.
SirGalahad took his drake down to Maargadum Jail for one last session until coffee, so that it ended its time with him 249 pet points into level 28, which seemed a convenient point at which to stop. After he logged out, RedRyder and Memree headed for Prokion Temple, and found their usual spot free, so settled in, in their usual way, with Memree doing the fighting, and Red doing most of the picking up of the loot.
A level 23 rogue called RangerNL did ask to join our combat party, but it boosted our experience gain way too much, and probably cut hers back too. She did ask about joining our guild, but I was diverted into answering someone else's questions at the time, so didn't reply before she left the area. I think the titan zamir must have been about that level too, he tended to have to sit in a corner for a while after every few kills to regain his health. I did give him a few of the small HP recovery potions to help speed that up a little.
Anyway, we made good progress, and both my rogues ended up with 162 more skill points. Memree had added 10.73% and 50 guild points, while RedRyder was up 2.23% and 9 guild points.
There was just time before lunch for RedRyder and SirGalahad to exchange pets, so that Red got the level 28 drake, and Gal took charge of a level 12 hatchling, which was ready for a bit of levelling - which it got, for the rest of the day, turning it from a cute little dragon hatchling into an experienced level 17 drake.
The afternoon session was still on Tairen, with Kaerella, who did her bit of harpy-hunting just outside Prokion Temple, collecting 5 harpy tears, 7 harpy feathers... and Kamira turned up too, but we agreed to ignore each other.
I went into the Temple after that. I'd been chatting with KateNash, and she warned me of an assassin-type rogue called List who had nearly killed her by luring some high-level orcs up to her, and then using the assassin "Death Motion" skill to play dead, so that the aggro was transferred from List to the nearest other player, Kate. It was useful to know what was going on, and I played it safe whenever I saw List and a few orcs, and kept well clear. Curiously, she seemed to be leading a mass of orcs onto a couple of her guildmates, as well as other people.
The mummies and orc soldier room was generally in use, so I tended to be on the stairs and in the room at their top, fighting mummies and ghouls and the occasional orc soldier, so that my ratio of skill exp to experience was pretty good. Kae left the Temple soon after reaching level 24, and just after getting her hatchling to level 7, having added 72.30%, 316 skill points, and
1259 pet points.
There were some quests to sort out after that, not just giving Jajan his harpy tears and feathers, but carrying messages around, as well - including one to Shuraine at his oasis. It was around my early evening food break time by then, so Kae rested in Shuraine's tent for a few minutes, before fighting the sand golems at the oasis to get some soft sand. The Elizabeth's Enhancement buff ran out while I was fighting, so I just continued until I had ten soft sands rather than twenty, and then returned to town, renewed the buff in Randol, and then hurried down to the other oasis where this first ten of the soft sand was required. That all had added another 67.76%, but just 32 skill points.
After that, it was my level 54 cleric Kaerella who was due some quality time over on Cariae-5, and the session started well with a notice of a couple of sales via Roy's merchant mart, bringing in 494,134 gold. I put replacement items up for sale, grabbed the "Elizabuff", and headed out to the ravenous larvae once more. I'd only just arrived when, at about a quarter past six, the "Turbo" event began, with 50% extra experience and skill exp, which helped speed things along a bit.
I got the 10% I needed to get Kae into level 55, and then went back to Randol to put a few more things in the merchant mart, as my inventory was pretty full. There's no new skill to learn until level 56, but this does at least mean that Kae can wear level 60 gloves, so I searched through Roy's stock to see what he had on offer - and ended up buying a +7 pair for 15 million, put up for sale by Eedward. It cost another 230,400 to convert them from the titan to the healer "Peaceful" variety, but they will need some further augmentation before they give more defence than Kaerella's current level 50 +13 pair. It was surprising that more pairs weren't available, since they are part of the freebie +5 set people get when their character reaches level 60. Call me impatient, wanting to wear the gloves earlier, but the extra +2, not involving the one-off use of an extreme stone, seems worth the gold involved.
It was time to farm the dragons next, at the spot not far out of Dratan City on the way west, since they are the convenient level 55 monsters; they seemed to damage Kae less than the larvae had done, and definitely nibbled at her drake, SirFrancis, less. I settled in to farm a group of six in a circle, adding another 5% before the Elizabuff finally ended, after three hours. In all Kaerella had gone up by 15.83% and 205 skill points, while SirFrancis had gained 1780 pet points - which works out as 4.74% of his current level. Apart from a few hands and a heaven stone, plus from the current events chocolates and origami paper, the only drop of interest was a level 46 shirt, which is the same sort of thing the larvae were dropping.
In Dratan City, the Magician had a new quest for Kae, since she had levelled up. "Collect 8 Fog Samples of Master of Secret Techaniques (sic), and give to Magician" - for which the reward will be 519,000 experience and 4 skill points, both hopefully doubled if I remember to have the Elizabuff on when I claim it. "This study is about the magic composed of minute particles. Master of Secret Techniques may help my study...but I don't know how to get them. These are the monsters that are made with staid fogs which can have very strong magical defence power. If I find out the origin of this strong defence power, I might be able to give a great report. Please, get me some samples!!"
The Masters of Secret Technique are level 57 - aggressive pet-eaters with long-range magical and physical attacks. They're just beyond the Akane Giants on the road towards the southwest highlands; well, I don't have to do the quest straight away, just when convenient.
So, that was the end of the entertainment for the evening, except for, once SirGalahad had finished, arranging for some overnight selling.
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